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What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading The Lord of the Rings?
Newly reissued with a new afterword, Patrick Curry's Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that Tolkien has found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age.
His focus is on three main aspects of Tolkien's fiction:
the social and political structure of Middle-earth and how the varying cultures within it find common cause in the face of a shared threat;
the nature and ecology of Middle-earth and how what we think of as the natural world joins the battle against mindless, mechanized destruction;
and the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth, for which Curry provides a particularly insightful and resonant examination that will deepen the understanding of the millions of fans who have taken The Lord of the Rings to heart.
Book information
| Release Date (USA): | 2004-10-21 |
| Release Date (UK): | |
| Author: | Patrick Curry |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Company |
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